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Latitude: 52.0706 / 52°4'14"N
Longitude: -3.1312 / 3°7'52"W
OS Eastings: 322558
OS Northings: 241961
OS Grid: SO225419
Mapcode National: GBR F0.CRY7
Mapcode Global: VH6BJ.P700
Plus Code: 9C4R3VC9+6G
Entry Name: Harley's Almhouses
Listing Date: 1 February 1988
Last Amended: 1 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7287
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300007287
Location: 1 Brecon Road
County: Powys
Community: Hay (Y Gelli Gandryll)
Community: Hay
Built-Up Area: Hay-on-Wye
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: Building
Set back from the road behind grassed forecourt with lower rubble wall to front. Group of 12 almshouses built in 1836; heightened to centre in 1927. Single storey, except Nos. 6 and 7 which are 2-storey, 1 window fronts; coursed rubble with plinth. Slate roof overhanging eaves and brick chimney stacks set diagonally, those to centre are taller, flanking 2-window pebbledash gable to Nos. 6 and 7. Voussoir lintels to tudor pointed windows and door openings. Paired casement windows with diamond leaded glazing and boarded shutters with C-shaped fastenings; boarded doors. Slated lean to brackets hoods, twinned except for end houses. Casement windows to 1927 addition, crucifix over datestone and coat of arms in diamond recess. Modern tablet below inscribed "Harley Almshouses, these almshouses were built and endowed by Frances Harley in memory of her Sister Martha Harley of Trebarried in 1836, they were modernised in 1974".
Modern windows to rear; lean to at centre.
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